<p><em>The 50 Greatest Players in Indians History</em> examines the careers of the fifty men who made the greatest impact on one of the American League's most historic franchises. Using as measuring sticks the degree to which they impacted the ...

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<p>Baseball is a game of incredible moments, awe-inspiring feats, and dramatic finishes. But not all of these events actually impacted the game itself or the players still to come. Moments such as Lou Gehrig’s last Opening Day appearance, the ...

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<p>"Baseball got in me when I was little.&nbsp; It runs in my family, and it rubbed off on me.&nbsp; It's a disease."<br> —Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, Red Sox pitcher (1982-1989)</p>
<p>Baseball is woven into the fabric of American life. For every ...

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Over 100 never before published pictures, from the late 1970's New York Yankee dynasty years, are contained in the new publication, "A Fauxtographer's Yankee Stadium Memoir". Author and photographer, Arnie "Tokyo" Rosenthal, has assembled the ...

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<p>In 2010 twenty American women were selected to represent Team USA in the fourth Women’s Baseball World Cup in Caracas, Venezuela; most Americans, however, had no idea such a team even existed.</p>
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<p>This volume celebrates the 1965 Minnesota Twins, who captured the American League pennant in just their fifth season in the Twin Cities. Led by an All-Star cast, from Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Zoilo Versalles, and Mudcat Grant to Bob ...

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<p>Between 1966 and 1983, the Baltimore Orioles were considered the best team in baseball. During that span, the team won three World Series, advanced to three others, and competed for a playoff spot just about every season.</p>
<p>The Orioles ...

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How the Cleveland Indians of the ?90s Went from Cellar Dwellers to Playoff Contenders

by George Christian Pappas

<p>For almost fifty years, the Cleveland Indians were a joke. They had won the 1948 World Series with one of the greatest teams of all time, but had not been to the playoffs since 1954 (losing to the New York Giants in the World Series). Even ...

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<p><strong>The inside account of an iconic team in baseball history: the 1969 New York Mets—a consistently last-place team that turned it all around in just one season—told by ’69 Mets outfielder Art Shamsky, Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, and

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<p>The rich, poignant tales of major league baseball’s most hard-luck fraternity—the pitchers of its Almost-Perfect Games</p>
<p>From 1908 to 2015, there have been thirteen pitchers who have begun Major League Baseball games by retiring the ...

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The Summer of '81 and the Greatest Baseball Team You've Never Heard Of

by J. David Herman

<p><em>Almost Yankees</em> is a poignant and nostalgic narrative of the lives and travails of Minor League Baseball, focusing on the 1981 championship season of the New York Yankees’ Triple-A farm club, the Columbus Clippers. That year was ...

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<p><strong>This comprehensive survey of major league baseball looks at the national pastime’s legendary figures, major innovations, and pivotal moments, from the beginning of the twentieth century through World War II.</strong></p>
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<p>Most fans don’t know how far the Jewish presence in baseball extends beyond a few famous players such as Greenberg, Rosen, Koufax, Holtzman, Green, Ausmus, Youkilis, Braun, and Kinsler. In fact, that presence extends to the baseball ...

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<p>This volume by members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) presents the 50 greatest games in Montreal Expos history. The games described here recount the exploits of the many great players who wore Expos uniforms over the ...

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<p>From his first year in the majors, George Herman “Babe” Ruth knew he could profit from celebrity. Babe Ruth Cigars in 1915 marked his first attempt to cash in. Traded to the Yankees in 1920, he soon signed with Christy Walsh, baseball’s first

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<p><strong>An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural ...

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<p>For half a century the St. Louis Browns were nothing short of spectacular ... when it came to futility. Whatever promise or hope or grandeur dreams held by the franchise and its fans after a second place finish in its inaugural season in St. ...

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<p>In November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League all-stars that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, future secret agent Moe Berg, and Connie Mack barnstormed across the Land of the Rising ...